FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING
In the 2015-2016 NBA season, he made history by becoming the first player ever to be unanimously voted the league’s Most Valuable Player
CURRY
AKA “the Logo”, he has the distinction of being the only NBA Finals MVP winner from the losing team.
JERRY WEST
Regarded as a pinnacle of human endurance and mental fortitude, Alex Honnold free-solo climbed the 3,000-foot El Capitan rock face in this national park, without any ropes.
YOSEMITE
755 career homeruns and 527 career passing TDs
HANK AARON RODGERS
This Yankee legend didn’t record a Grand Slam from 1982-86. In ‘87, he broke the single season record, with 6. He never hit another one the rest of his career.
DON MATTINGLY
The father of this current NL infielder hit the first ever Homerun for a 1994 NL expansion team.
BO BICHETTE
They were the last expansion team, in 2004 - and have since changed their name.
CHARLOTTE BOBCATS
This tennis legend from the early 20th century, was nicknamed “the Crocodile” which is depicted on the polos he introduced to the sport.
LACOSTE
7 consecutive 1,000 receiving yards and 9 NHL MVP awards (to go with 4 Stanley Cups)
REGGIE WAYNE GRETZKY
This franchise has fewer total postseason runs than the Rays and the DBacks (despite being founded about 100 years earlier)
WHITE SOX
On October 12, 1979, Chris Ford of the Boston Celtics was the first to score this type of shot against the Houston Rockets.
THREE POINTER
This HOFer/thee-peater played 19 seasons and averaged 23.7 ppg, but made only one three pointer in his entire career.
SHAQ
These three states are the only ones with ONE big four sports franchise.
NEW JERSEY, OREGON & OKLAHOMA
The only Piston on the 2008 men’s Olympic team, and the 2009 Homerun Derby champion.
TAYSHAUN PRINCE FIELDER
Bill Skowron (also known by this nickname) hit the game winning three-run homer in Game 7 of the 1958 World Series and scored the winning run in Game 7 of the 1962 World Series.
MOOSE
In 2007, he made history as the first Black head coach to win a Super Bowl, leading the Indianapolis Colts to victory over the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI.
TONY DUNGY
The shot clock - introduced in this decade - was calculated by team owners to produce about 120 shots per game, which fans would enjoy more.
1950s
Of the NHL, MLB and NBA, it’s the league with the fewest 4-game sweeps in their respective championship finals.
NBA
Bengals QB of the 70s and 80s, and a Brazilian b-baller nicknamed the Wild Thing
KEN ANDERSON VARAJAO
Mike Trout recently became the first visiting player to hit 5 HRs in a four-game set at Yankee Stadium since this HOF OF did it in 1998.
KEN GRIFFEY JR
He was the first POTUS to throw the ceremonial first pitch in a MLB game.
TAFT
According to the 80s rap song “Basketball”, this player got a monster dunk.
DARYL DAWKINS
$100 for each correct answer.
They were the 5 Knicks on the court at the end of Game 5, when New York clinched its first championship in 53 years.
BRIDGES, HART, SHAMET, OG, SOCHAN
HOF Goalie with 551 career wins and the player most responsible for the NFLs horse-collar tackle rule (it was named after him)
PATRICK ROY WILLIAMS
This Marlin became one of the few MLB players ever to play every inning of every game (in the 2004 season.)
JUAN PIERRE